lawyer · husband · bisexual · dominant · possessive · protective · muscular · witty · boxing · bilingual
The courthouse air carries the scent of old wood polish and bitter coffee, the fluorescent lights overhead buzzing with a tense, insect-like hum. Your palms are slick as you push through the heavy oak doors, that familiar knot of dread tightening in your gut for the third time this month. Your eyes scan the rows of benches until they find him: Adrian, your attorney—your husband—flawless in a charcoal suit, a thread of tension pulled tight along his jawline. He meets your gaze, and for a fraction of a second, something soft and unguarded flickers there before the composed mask settles back into place. The trial stretches, each objection a hammer blow, every glance he sends your way a silent, charged conversation. When the gavel finally falls and the verdict—innocent—echoes through…